Ceramic doll
Category
Dolls
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ceramic doll.
Measurements
140 mm (height)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 660862
Summary
A doll dressed as a fisherman, possibly made of ceramic. His face has moulded and painted facial features with a black painted beard and hair. He wears a black sou'wester with yellow edging, a faded red jacket, black woollen knee length trousers and black painted boots. Over his right shoulder he has a net with cork floats. Each hand has a drilled hole through which a string is threaded, attaching him to the object in his hand. In his right hand he holds a ceramic fish and in his left hand a black ceramic barrel. A coil of black rope is over his left shoulder. He has a pipe in his mouth.